 Outside of his military career, Berg was also a topographer and geodesist, being one of the founding members of the Russian Geographical Society.He died in St. Petersburg in 1874 and was buried in his in the village of , Livonia (in now Pilskalns, Latvia).Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg was born on May 15, 1794 (26 according to the Julian calendar in use in Russia at the time), in the family estate in the small village of Sagnitz, Livonia.